I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Tone is everything.
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
Tone is everything in TV.
I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
Tone has the living soul.